161 applicants

Company

Stripe · 2 days ago

Staff Engineer, Document Databases

United States

Full-time

Remote

Lead/Staff

$210K/yr - $315K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain the core database infrastructure used by all of Stripe’s engineering teams

Solve complicated problems that only exist at very high scale

Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack

Plan for the growth of Stripe’s database platform infrastructure

Develop tooling and automate processes to provide a resilient and flexible platform for other engineers

Build a great customer experience for people using your infrastructure

Design and build data sharding mechanisms and infrastructure to enable Stripe’s growth over the next 10 years

Implement dynamic capacity management and rate limiting infrastructure to keep systems healthy during 10x load events

Build storage tiering and admission control systems to enforce balance between performance and efficiency

Create tools and APIs that engineers love to use to understand the performance of and optimize their database queries

Qualification

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Distributed SystemsDatabase InfrastructureCloud-based SystemsAWSMongoDBCC++GoRubyJavaMySQLVitessEnvoyKafka

Required

10+ years of professional experience in a software development role

Proven track record of building large scale, cloud based complex distributed systems; identifying shortcomings and optimization opportunities; and making data driven cost performance tradeoffs to influence design decisions

Experience building and operating infrastructure and tools that empower developers/product teams to deliver business value

Experience leading and creating strong technical teams that balance operational excellence, collaboration and user needs

Experience with operational excellence and a deep understanding of metrics, alarms and dashboards

Experience handling critical incidents for production systems

Preferred

Experience on building large scale distributed systems in AWS

Experience working with Distributed storage services like AWS DynamoDB

Experience with Go, Ruby or/and Java

Benefits

Equity

Company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Company

Stripe

Glassdoor

3.6

Stripe is an API technology company that provides online payment processing and commerce solutions for Internet businesses.

Founded in 2010

South San Francisco, California, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://stripe.com/in

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